Script for Offline Files

[tmpotvin]

Good Afternoon,

I"m wondering if anyone has ever had to create a script of some sorts to
automate making a folder available Offline. What we currently have is the
following:
- Favorites are redirected via policy so are automatically Offline.
- My Documents are redirected via policy so are automatically Offline.

What the business is looking for is to make My Documents Offline initially,
but give the users the ability to then remove any folders they don't wish to
keep Offline. I've tried many policy variations, and it appears that either
the entire is available Offline with no options to change settings, or the
entire folder is not available Offline.

I'm thinking I might have to script something to get around this.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[PassPlay]

Generally in a domain environment, you can move the my documents folder to
the users Home drive, (let's say H. Anytime the My Documents folder is not
located on a local drive it is considered "an offline folder" by the system.
To make it work in the manner you specified create "H:\my documents" now
everthing within "H:\My Documnents" will sync as an offline folder (excluding
certain files like mdb etc).
Users can still utilize "H:\" and move files directly to the root and they
will not sync.
You can utilize Domain GPO's to force sync during logon and logoff.

 

[tmpotvin]

Yes, this is what I've been trying and it's been working great. The only
issue is that users don't want some folders to synchronize and whenever they
try to right click and deselect "Make Available Offline" the option is greyed
out.
I do understand that a redirected folder will automatically be available
offline, but I need to find a way around this.
Thanks for the reply!